The BC Liberals say the NDP government has failed to fix the family doctor crisis and an independent review of access to urgent health care is needed.
Since 2018, the NDP government has opened 26 health authority-run Urgent and Primary Care Centres, where teams of family doctors, nurses, nurse practitioners and other health-care providers see patients for same-day urgent but non-emergency health concerns. She said a similar system in Manitoba created more “inconsistency in the continuum of care” and did not reduce emergency room wait times.
Approximately 15,000 to 17,000 staff of 126,000 public health-care workers are off sick in a given week, nearly double pre-pandemic illness levels. “We know that people that have that longitudinal care that you get with a family doctor, that that translates into better health outcomes, less use of emergency rooms and people getting more preventative care,” said Furstenau, MLA for Cowichan Valley. “And the UPCCs aren’t providing that.”“What we don’t need is time spent, right now, on what’s going wrong,” Furstenau said in an interview. “We just need to really work on the solutions that do work.
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